What are your biggest frustrations with Kiwi drivers?

It seems one of the biggest frustrations people have is when people don't go at least the speed limit.

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Drivers who cannot get their cars past 40kph, either to save petrol or because they are firm believers in the "Its not a Target" campaign.

New Zealand drivers are just shit. They really are. Our roads are crappy - the actual quality of the tarmac AND the fact that our roads have to navigate mountains and rivers and more mountains, yet Kiwi's seem to think that because they can drive as fast as they want on an autobahn with less fatalities that they can do the same here. No.

Speed limits are there for a reason. They're not made up by some guy with an anti-fun wand, they're calculated.

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Was doing 75 in an 80 zone on a wet day last week out by Raglan where I live. Some Dickhead in a van overtook me doing at least 110. I have seen him pull some other crazy maneuvers since. Think he lives around here. Should I go Rodney King on him next time?

Brokeback wrote:Was doing 75 in an 80 zone on a wet day last week out by Raglan where I live. Some Dickhead in a van overtook me doing at least 110. I have seen him pull some other crazy maneuvers since. Think he lives around here. Should I go Rodney King on him next time?

People who indicate once they are halfway through the turn anywayTailgatersPeople who like to sightsee and drive 10k along my streetPeople who change lanes before lookingPeople who don't indicate off roundabouts

Tailgaters - one of my top hates!People who indicate and move at the same timePeople who dont indicate at allPeople who dont understand the give way rulePeople who dont know how to use a roundaboutPeople who change lanes before lookingPeople who cut you offPeople who don't indicate off roundaboutsQueue jumpers (smartasses who can't wait and pass long queues of traffic on a median lane and then expect to be let in) Old people who drive at 90 km/h in the fast lane on a fine day

People who want your spot in a carpark, but don't give you enough room to back out

People holding up left turning traffic as they wait for ages to turn right onto a 4-laned road in peak traffic, when they could just go left and go around the roundabout OR come out at a controlled intersection instead - but no they're trying to save time by "missing the lights"

People who don't take the gap that you make for them

And this one doesn't annoy me as such I just find it funny:People all circling the ground floor of the carpark at Bayfair (and other places I'm sure) waiting for someone to leave, eventually getting a park there about as far from the door as possible, but if you go up one level its empty as, and you park close to the escalators and are probably done and inside before those other muppets have even scored a spot.

It seems one of the biggest frustrations people have is when people don't go at least the speed limit.

See:

Drivers who cannot get their cars past 40kph, either to save petrol or because they are firm believers in the "Its not a Target" campaign.

New Zealand drivers are just shit. They really are. Our roads are crappy - the actual quality of the tarmac AND the fact that our roads have to navigate mountains and rivers and more mountains, yet Kiwi's seem to think that because they can drive as fast as they want on an autobahn with less fatalities that they can do the same here. No.

Speed limits are there for a reason. They're not made up by some guy with an anti-fun wand, they're calculated.

I dont think kiwi drivers are any worse than anyone else...it's a mindset thing maybe?

I think because our civil planning/public transport is so archaic people act as if they have to fight to maintain their position in traffic etc. I found in the UK/Europe even though there were a shitload more cars on the road, that there was a real sense of courtesy... I was never cut off, people always let me into traffic, they merged properly instead of trying to get that ONE car infront.

It seems one of the biggest frustrations people have is when people don't go at least the speed limit.

See:

Drivers who cannot get their cars past 40kph, either to save petrol or because they are firm believers in the "Its not a Target" campaign.

New Zealand drivers are just shit. They really are. Our roads are crappy - the actual quality of the tarmac AND the fact that our roads have to navigate mountains and rivers and more mountains, yet Kiwi's seem to think that because they can drive as fast as they want on an autobahn with less fatalities that they can do the same here. No.

Speed limits are there for a reason. They're not made up by some guy with an anti-fun wand, they're calculated.

I dont think kiwi drivers are any worse than anyone else...it's a mindset thing maybe?

I think because our civil planning/public transport is so archaic people act as if they have to fight to maintain their position in traffic etc. I found in the UK/Europe even though there were a shitload more cars on the road, that there was a real sense of courtesy... I was never cut off, people always let me into traffic, they merged properly instead of trying to get that ONE car infront.

thats what I found in vietnam... there were something like 6billion cars on one road but they all let each other in etc... i rekjen thats why asian drivers are "so bad" over here cause they havent got the kiwi anger bred into them

Another that I just realised today; people who are impatient and don't back off from L plate drivers. Tailgaters are annoying in general, but come on? It's a learner driver, give them space to work it out and back the fuck off.

Drivers you tailgate through a town with a 50 or 70k limit, then try to pass you just as the zone changes.Little do they know, I may be driving a fucking odyssey, but its a 3l v6 odyssey so i just leave them stranded on the wrong side of the road